Improving people performance through the power of Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Resilience

Geetu has been helping us develop and move, kicking and screaming, into the world of a high performance culture.
This has had culture-changing results, demonstrated in our recent staff survey, which has seen an enormous increase in the trust and confidence that staff have in their managers - it’s the biggest change in the whole of the behaviours that we’re measuring. I would thank Geetu for helping us to be even more agile, adaptable and really getting us to perform at our best.

Professor Helen HigsonDeputy Vice Chancellor, Aston University

I was one of the first participants on the first courses that Geetu ran. When recently asked why people like me… so white, heterosexual, non-disabled or visibly non-disabled, go into the world of diversity, I was prompted to reflect about why I am here. Why do I do what I do? I was asked about the key milestones in my life, and I had to identify that course, that five-day course, as being a real life-changer. People say that about certain things, but I genuinely mean that: It was a real life-changer for me.

My plan was to explore how we drive the MSE business forward? I looked at the structure, the operating model and the team and I looked at how I’d integrated it into the group. I realised it was in its second stage of development and it actually needed a different skillset from mine to take it forward. I took the decision to step out of that role after I’d done the foundation integration pieces, and I recruited somebody who I consider to be a really talented member of the team to take that business on. I’d done the integration pieces, I’d set the foundations, I’d put in place the models so that the teams could work effectively together. That was my job done and, do you know what? Geetu made me comfortable with that. I didn’t see that as a failure. I saw that as that’s the role that I played, it was a fantastic one, but actually now I need to go and do something different.

Julie Fisher (as Coachee)Operations Director, TravelSupermarket.com

Graham was a successful programme deliverer in the IT world. He had a whole track record of successful projects but he had, it seemed, only one tool in his kitbag - a very large hammer, which he used to smash his way through his projects and, sure enough, he left quite a bit of debris behind. So, although he was very well respected for being able to come in and deliver a project and for being able to walk bravely into very difficult situations and achieve a turnaround, he wasn’t seen as somebody with real leadership potential because of the fallout left behind.

Lance Doughty (As Sponsor)Senior Vice President, Cap Gemini Uk Plc

What we found in the last six months in particular is that the HR team contains the emotion for people around them - they are the pressure valve and, in these times of change and uncertainty, this is a difficult role.
The process of doing the Team EI survey and discussing the outcome, looking at a team which is seen as very transactional, as doers who are getting things done, and identifying with them and giving them space to actually say how they are and Geetu talking us through the process was incredibly helpful.

Ceri LennonHead of HR, Eden Futures

So first it was concept, then it was research. Now that we know it matters, how do we take it out into the world and really distribute it and scale it up? Geetu’s book on emotional resilience answers that question.
The thing I love is it really is an active book that you can use to help develop yourself and develop others. It’s cutting edge. It’s right at the top. It’s exactly what the field needs right now.
I’m going to use this book with my students in the academic world and in my own consulting work because it’s exactly what we need right now.

Professor Vanessa DruskatFounder Member of Ei Consortium, Professor, University of New Hampshire